The cinema of Mika Kaurismäki transvergent cinescapes, emergent identities
Mika Kaurismäki's films challenge many boundaries - national societies, genre formations, art/popular culture, fiction/documentary, humanity/nature, and problematic distinctions between different zones of development. Synthesizing concepts from a range of thematic frameworks - e.g. auteurism, e...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol, UK
Intellect
[2011], 2011
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Mika Kaurismäki's films challenge many boundaries - national societies, genre formations, art/popular culture, fiction/documentary, humanity/nature, and problematic distinctions between different zones of development. Synthesizing concepts from a range of thematic frameworks - e.g. auteurism, eco-philosophy, genre, cartography, cineaste networks, global reception, distribution and exhibition practices, and the potential of postnationalism - this book provides an interdisciplinary reading of Kaurismäki's cinema. The notion of 'transvergence' - of thinking in heterogeneous and polyphonal terms - |
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| Physical Description: | 208 pages |
| ISBN: | 1841504521 1841504092 |